Me: Anywho... I am trying to see just how many reviews I can get from this story, thanks to all who have written them and here is some more! Enjoy!

Zuranna: (blinks and looks to Alexial) I think she may have forgotten some characters...

Me: ... (sighs)

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"Integra?"

A woman cloaked in shadows stood by a large picture window that stared out at the night life of the city below. A man who having spoken the name, made his way over to her side as she wit ha heavy sigh, gave a sideways glance to him. "Look at them Walter, the decay is less then a mile from the city and people still go on living their lives." With a small smile pressed upon her pale lips, the woman's crimson eyes still held behind glasses that held no use to her but familiarity, narrowed slightly. "We gain immortality and still I cannot figure out why we are all granted life, from what I see life is nothing but misery, trouble is always there and always causing pain. So why go on living?" the woman spoke the words softly as a faint moisture fog appeared on the glass right across from her speaking lips. Walter smiling slightly, nodded as he, with the age of a man in his mid twenties, wore a monocle upon his right crimson eye, also looked out to the city below. "It's the want to live, a animal instinct everyone and everything holds, and other then that, it's the happy moments that we want to keep living, we all want to see and feel more of those moments, and with no knowledge of what happens after we die, we continue to want to live in this life."

The woman thinking this over, smiled and shrugging her shoulders, turned her back to the window as with a silent command, lights along the walls slowly drew light around them exposing an office room with a desk to the right made of the finest black oak and covered in many random documents. The walls were with maple wood panels as the floor was ivory marble tiles. From across the window by near twenty five feet, two huge wooden doors resided with a word engraved on either side of them. 'Hellsing'. Integra Wingates Hellsing, wearing a suit of the finest ebony touch with a crimson tie on a white shirt underneath the jacket, she with her long golden hair down to her rear, even though a vampire, still held her authority and beauty. "It's rather amusing, that those of mortal lives wish to live so to not regret their lives when death comes to reclaim them, while us granted with immortality... just live to live, with the knowledge that one day we will die, but without knowing when that is, we too somehow live a more extreme life that mortals take."

Walter the retainer for this woman for so long, turned and watched her. For old loves of his life before being undead, he still wore his black butler like clothing, yet, no longer were they clothes for being a butler, but one of a hunter. No longer did they hunt those that roamed the night, but those that abused their powers.

Even after all these years of passing, Hellsing still thrived.

"Enough of this talk, Walter, what news do you bring of your last hunt?" As Integra spoke, the woman sitting down at her desk, began to read the many documents scattered upon her work area. Walter nodding, smiled dryly to her, "The decay is beginning to grow worse and upon that, I am starting to notice those of kin who try to live by the borderline of these decaying areas are starting to go into a state of blind fury and madness as well as their forms mutating and changing. So far there have been over two hundred reports of these transformations and well, the hunt I had gone on bothered me greatly."

Integra blinking, looked up from her work and eyed Walter over the rim of her glasses. "Bothered? That is unlike you, the hunt? What was it? A rouge wolf who had forgotten his place?" Integra asked, Walter sighing slowly nodded. "yes... but... where and when I found him, was at the borderline of the nearby decay and when I found him, he no longer looked like a wolf, but something... monstrous, as if decaying from the inside out and his flesh, looked to be slipping off of his body. Even his eyes no longer held a sign of a soul, but-"

"Let me guess, an empty void, as if nothing thrived within but madness and bloodlust?"

Walter and Integra threw their gazes right over to the oak doors as with them still firmly shut, a man stood there. A single golden red eye stared back at them as his hands were leisurely stuffed into his pockets upon a black chain lathered trench coat. With his long braided hair hanging behind him, Haku gave into a crooked smile.

Integra narrowing her crimson eyes, watched him. "Hakuyaoshi; to what brings a royal here?" the woman spoke in a near mocking tone. This just made Haku smile even more. "oh really nothing, I was just passing through and saw the very thing Walter here had mentioned. I am surprised that you were not aware Walter, seeing you both are now well over, how old? Eight hundred was it?" Integra's eyes flared as she grew enraged of this man's cockiness, he had no respect, no show for any consideration except for his own well being. "What of it, if that is all you have to say, then leave, your presence annoys me." Integra growled gaining Haku's full stare as the man merely began to outright laugh. "I am just curious if your knowledge on that decay, or were you never notified that whenever those who get near the decay, their soul is taken from their bodies as tortured and souls full of agony, misery, or just shear rage or bloodlust, consume and take over these empty shells and change them to what those souls require to thrive in such a state." With a shrug of his shoulders, the man sighed and grinned towards the woman. "Then again, if you are the almighty Hellsing, then you must have already known, yes? Oh, you don't know? You cannot recall ever receiving such news? Oh me, I am shocked."

Papers flew from the desk top as Integra violently rising from her chair causing it to crash loudly unto the floor, pointed her guns right at Haku's chest who carelessly grinned and lazily rose his hands halfway up in a mock surrender. "Please, don't shoot, I don't want to die!" Laughing cruelly, Haku watched Integra as Walter nearby prepped his diamond filament wires. "Leave, now. I have no patience nor the time to deal with you." Integra's voice hissed venom as she watched him with near untamed rage. Hakuyaoshi felt her rage and rise of her power, he saw the flecks of red light slowly flicker over her form. "Alright, I shall leave, for the shear fact your company is most hostile, but remember this oh dear Hellsing."

With a fluid motion, Integra lurched back as Haku with a cruel grin upon his pale lips, was no more then five inches from Integra's face as within each of his clawed hands. Metal grinded as he easily clamped the gun barrels into themselves. "With Alucard gone, the remainder of us royals are now the strongest as they come." Haku spoke as he narrowed his single exposed golden red eye, his left concealed underneath a matt of his golden black banes.

"Your judgment to that is incorrect."

Seeing the glimmer of the advancing filament wires, Haku leapt back and gracefully landed where he had previously stood. Integra glaring at him with such malice, lowered her arms, yet her hands still tightly gripped the now useless guns. Walter with his wires retracting back into his grasp, watched Haku through his monocle as the vampire also watched the slayer with clouded interest. "Incorrect? How so? Alucard as I recall was incased in stone, thus the other royals reign strong now." Haku spoke, Walter though grinned to this and nodded to Haku in a almost kind gesture. "What of Seras Victoria? Was she not the Queen of Alucard?" Haku blinking, began to outright laugh. "Stop your laughter, I order you to stop!" Integra clearly wanting to put a bullet through this man then talk, her body was now giving off a full crimson glow.

Haku wiping his tearing eyes, once more covering the left as he looked at them with his right. "Seras is a joke, she had lost her will to live ever since Alucard's fall. Yes she outranks the rest of us royals, but without the want to live, she is even lesser then you. Well, my time has come to an end with you, tata for now." With a sideways click of his heels together is if about to do a formal salute, Haku with a wicked grin upon his lips, just faded from sight making the lights around flicker heavily.

Walter sighing heavily after a few minuets of tense silence, looked over to Integra as she was already in the process of picking up her chair and fallen papers, her guns, now just crumbled paperweights sitting upon her desk. "as much as we dislike his presence, do you think what he had spoken was true?" Walter asked as he pocketing his weapon of choice, went to join in with Integra's clean up of her office.

"As much as I really hate to admit, I believe he is, but here's a question, why did he choose to come here in the first place? Walter, we need to look further into this... I do believe there is more going on then what we first anticipated."

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"My god..."

Ebony in her dragon like state, stood there on the edge of a decaying land concealed within Illinois. Having fully consumed Chicago, skeletons were strewn all around as well as many small skeletal creations. Hearing a few screams not far off, she saw a skeletal raptor like monster running down the street after five fleeing kin. the decays grasp was getting worse, in small areas of decay where these skeletal beings thrived, they were now capable of leaving the decay's embrace for short periods without falling apart, allowing them to savagely kill those who were nearby at that given moment in time.

"we should keep moving."

Jumping at his voice, Ebony resettling her black feather wings upon her back, turning, with her dragon muzzle looking over to her right... saw Reign come over. Concealed by his cloak like always, the chains over his front grinded loudly as he came to a stop before her. "it's spreading even faster now and who we sought here was just killed a good two days ago, there is no reason to remain." Hearing his words, Ebony looking to the skeletal remains strewn about on last time, sighed deeply as she turning her back to it all, began to head off with Reign silently following alongside her. "We need to find someone, anyone who has knowledge of breaking the chains of a royal from their throne." Ebony spoke as they both casually walked past two skeletal raptor monsters who were busy tearing apart two women with weapons on them; clearly they were or at least were once at some time, slayers; hunters.

"With Harold gone, there is only one who remains but cannot be found on this side of the planet. We'll have to get close to your throne to find a way to break your bond to it."

Hearing Reign above the grinding chains on his body, Ebony sighed deeply as she with her left clawed hand, gently itched underneath her chin. "Yeah, but she's a vampire, she would rather be trying to get me to retake the throne then to shatter the link."

"She may, or may help find another suitor that will better fit your throne then yourself."

Hearing his words, Ebony merely smirked. "Yeah right, you have to be a descendent from a god or a goddess to claim that throne. Just like Dracula who is a descendent from the mortal god, I am the descendent from the goddess of magic, anyone who is lesser then that ranking will be consumed and forever trapped in that throne." Ebony grumbled as she flicked her whip like tail faintly about behind her. A shear sign of her mind in deep thought. Reign watching her with unseen eyes, allowed a deep sigh to pass his lips. "All in all, something needs to be done quick or this world will perish." Ebony hearing him, nodded as she weakly looked to him as they continued on walking. "I know, Dracula needs to be restored, but if we were to even get near those who wish for his return, they would immediately want me to return to my own throne to help the imbalance right itself even more."

Reign watching her, drew in a slow breath into deep lungs concealed within his chest. "Even so, seeing Harold is gone, we have no other choice but-"

"... To go to the other side of this world, I know... but I really do not want to." She grumbled as her wings lifted ever so slightly. Reign drawing to her side, slid a strong bondage lathered arm over her shoulders and pulled her into his side as they went onward. "I know, but we must, either way that is our next destination. So transportation..."

Ebony couldn't help but smile at this note, seeing he was a land creature, a demonic Siberian tiger, and she a... dragon. "I ought to charge you for the ride." Yet without waiting for a response, Ebony, blazing a vivid blue, began to shift, change, and grow.

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"I am not going in there!"

Arram stopping in mid step turned and stared at Seras as she with wide fearful eyes watched the decaying area they were to intrude upon next. Instead of dragon, dinosaur like creations running amuck, it was pulled together kin bones with that of humans. Then again this decaying land was much smaller then the last so couldn't sustain such large creations, so the bones settled for smaller ones.

Being smaller, Arram just gaped at Seras.

"Why not? They're smaller! You could handle a twenty foot tall dragon monster and here you can't handle the tallest eight foot being?"

Seras shaking her head, weakly looked out at the walking creations that stalked the border on their side. They had been aware of these two for some time now and gave into watery growls and hisses, their 'attempt' of luring the two into the lands of death.

Arram sighing heavily, went over and stopped right in front of Seras, blocking her view. With a weak noise, the undead slowly pulled her crimson eyes up to Arram's sightless gaze. "Why are you so afraid of them? they're much smaller then the last, easier to take down."

"It's not what they are..."

hearing her small voice just seemingly a whisper, Arram watched her as she wringing her hands together, hung her head. "They... are... this land... was the burial grounds... after... the last war when Alucard... was still alive..."

Arram hearing this, sighed slowly as he turning, stared out at the lands as the creations... have stopped moving and stared solely at them, or rather, they stared only at Seras who had crimson tears slipping down her face. "Burial... so wait, you buried them in Vienna, Austria? Wasn't the war primarily located in England?" Sniffing, Seras gathering her courage, looked up at the silent and still creations with sad eyes as she nodded weakly. "yes, but, there was still fights beyond England's borders... many clans and packs that were good friends of mine... died. Our own burial grounds in England were filled, so... this was t he next best thing seeing Austria where these clans and packs home, and when Vienna was destroyed by... Maxwell's.. demon armies, all that was left was corrupted ground. To fix this and give peace and eternal rest to our fallen comrades, myself and a good few of my comrades and friends helped in the burial here, it gave back what was needed... rest, purification, and eternal peace to the lost souls of that war."

Wiping her eyes as her last few words were low, Arram watched oddly as Seras began to slowly head for the decays border as if being called. A single skeletal creation stepped forward. It's bones changing wildly along its body until... there stood a harpy skeleton with steel feathers running down the wing bones. With a watery laugh and smile, Seras's sad eyes watched the harpy as they stood no further then three feet apart from each other.

"Ryuichi..."

Hearing the harpy leader's name of Dark Moon with steel winged harpies, Arram watched them. the knowledge he was given when having awoken at Dracula's gravesite, was that the Dark Moon clan was wiped out less then ten years ago... by the raging slaughters of the demons who had come to this world from the gateways of Hell as a final defiance, but was swiftly put in their place by the kin who were tired of demons ravaging these lands. The only survivor was a soft wing, the only one welcomed into the clan by Ryuichi himself; Toska, Ryuichi's mate with two unborn babies.. no doubt having been born no less then nine years ago. Such a short time for immortals.

Seeing Seras walk past the borderline, made Arram snap back to present time as he watched her gently stopping half a foot from the skeletal harpy, held her hands out taking either side of the fallen man's skull ever so softly.

As soon as contact had been made, Arram fell back hard as the very land began to bleed a blazing red. Tendrils of this light flurried about madly from both land and creations, and Arram understood. This was the land, no longer purified and restful, but forever in torment, sorrow, agony... slowly, as if upon the breath of the tender winds, a light blue began to take hold from top and consuming towards the grounds. The silent pain, wails, the very sorrow and agony began to fade as the want to relax, to fall asleep, filled the very lands and air.

"I am sorry... I am so sorry for what has happened to you..."

Hearing her muffled voice, Arram looking from the glowing lands, saw Seras with her forehead pressed up against the harpy's as the other creations all around shuffled their bones and became the former selves of what they had once been. Wolves, vampires, dragons, felines, canines, bird folk, even the others of the Dark Moon clan with their steel wings still intact. All of them seemingly with puzzled emotions and looking at each other. Their souls once more brought back to peace, no longer being torn apart.

This bothered and surprised Arram greatly. He had seen the most powerful Miko's trying to purify these decaying lands, and had no hope, their powers were just absorbed into the lands... yet here. This decaying spot, still in the state of forever decaying, yet the usual following madness that accompanied the decay, was no longer here. The souls who were buried here as for those who were pulled from their bodies when the decay began, found peace.

Seras feeling his motion, released Ryuichi's skull as the harpy, with his body glowing a brilliant blue, fell back. the air rippled around his skull and allowed the dead harpy to smile at the Queen before him. "You seek something from your lover... a piece is here, and I believe it is time for you to reclaim it, Queen of all Darkness." Hearing his voice, even if in her head through telekinesis, Seras couldn't help but allow her smile to grow towards this harpy. With a low bow of his upper body, as much as his wings would permit, Ryuichi righting himself, turned and began to walk off with a graceful gate even though baring the legs of a bird. Seras not even looking to Arram, followed suit, no longer with fear, but a sad happiness. She was happy to see her comrades find peace, but sad that they could never come back to the world of living ever again.

"Toska; is she well?"

Hearing his worried voice, Seras sighing, nodded "She gave birth to two boys, their name's I do not know... I have... been... in my castle... for a long time..." Seras spoke weakly, clearly ashamed of how she had been acting for a good eight hundred years. After the Dark Moon had been maimed, she just buried herself further in her woes and misery, only catching a small amount of news here and there, including that Toska had given birth.

Ryuichi, lacking any names of his sons, was laughing happily as he ruffled his wings. "Sons! I'm a dad! I am the father of two son or..." his happiness ebbed as he staring forward, slowed his gait as he looked to the night sky. "... I was going to be... the father of two sons..." sighing softly, he went on walking as Seras with a sad murmur passing her lips, followed after, unsure of what to say.

"here it is..."

Hearing his voice after a good twenty minuets of silent walking, Seras going to the harpy's left side, saw a great stone residing on the ground, it was a morbid shape of some organ, of what, she didn't know. Hearing his small painful laugh, Seras looked over to Ryuichi as he was looking at Seras... even though with no facial expressions to have, she felt his sadness and yet... happiness. "I am glad she is dong well, I had only hoped, I was there for her... I love her. You are luck Seras Victoria... you at least have a chance to revive your own love, but myself, and my clan... we are no longer permitted the lives we once knew. Just please, deliver a message for me when you have the time, tell Toska, tell my wife, that I love her and whenever she is sad and alone, tell her I am always here for her, I will always..."

Hearing a faint call from high above, Ryuichi forgetting his own voice and words... stared up to the sky as high above, a single soft winged harpy female flew. Flying high above her were two young ones, one a steel wing, the other a soft wing. The decaying lands normally would suck anything of life, even if high in the sky, yet here... being no longer filled with anguish and sorrow... a barrier of unseen power had erected itself, keeping the living safe above within the sky.

Ryuichi's body lurched as he flared his wings making the many steel feathers click wildly about, oh so wanting to see them, to join them in flight, it was her! He felt it aching within a heart he no longer had. With the talons of the female, many objects flitted down to the decaying lands... as they fell they began to shrivel from the decaying touch, yet when they fell to the ground... it was clear as to what they were. Roses as red as fresh blood.

With a sad sigh, Seras looked to the large rock, so many lives were put down long before when they should have been. So many families, loved ones torn apart... and still being torn apart with these decaying lands scattered all around the earth. With the surroundings, the current happenings... Seras blinking, knew what part of Alucard rested before her. Upon reaching a trembling hand out and resting onto the cold rock surface, a watery smile fell upon Seras's lips once more. "Alucard's... heart..."

With a loud grinding cry, the stone, from where Seras touched it, cracked loudly and began to split down the middle from top to bottom. Instantly... two of Ryuichi's former clan of Dark Moon stood nearby watching the Queen as she with her hand still upon the rock, collapsed to her knees as with no apparent reason, began to outright sob. Yet her cry, even though sad, held... happiness.

The love, oh how she felt his love suddenly engulf her like a warm summers breeze all over her entire body. With the tears falling from her eyes, Seras wept as she felt strong unseen arms embrace her from behind, pulling her back into a chest she knew could not be seen. But the feeling, the raw emotions... it was exactly the same if not stronger since when he had yelled his love for her when the marble had been consuming his body. He was so in love, that he was not afraid of dying, he was so in love and happy that even though him being taken away, she was safe.

With a weak watery laugh, Seras rising her left hand, rested it upon the unseen arms that encased her form, and she felt... soft flesh where none was seen. Gripping even tighter, Seras hanging her head, closed her eyes hard making more tears to fall. Within a few seconds, upon opening her eyes, the undead stood there once more in a mental realm, no longer black darkness, but a swirling glittery blue. A feeling of peace and happiness swam around her as there before her. Encased in the blue mist that swirled about, a man stood, covered in shadows... all around a deep heavy heartbeat pulsated slowly making the glitter shine brightly with each beat.

Seras...

Rising to her feet gingerly, Seras watched him as her heart ached horribly, a pain that hurt near to much for her to bear. "Alucard... I..." Seras froze as the man before her faded from sight, yet... closing her eyes, the woman felt a callused hand hold the left side of her face. "I love you Seras... I always will."

"And I love you-"

Seras's eyes flew open as she heard a slow groan of rocks consuming. As soon as her gaze was open, she wish she hadn't as the realm around her was plunged into a memory of long passed.

She saw herself... and Alucard.

Blood tears now fell down her face fully as Seras shaking hard, pressed onto his body. "No... please, please tell me you'll be ok, please, Alucard!" Seras's cries were silence as with another low laugh, Alucard like a old man, lifted a trembling hand and rested it unto the side of her face, neither one carrying that his hand was soaked in blood. Red eyes met red eyes as his were beginning to dull. His lips slowly curled into a smile, nothing more or less but that, a smile. "I... am Sorry Seras Victoria... but, I gave myself... away... to that of a higher... being." His grin turned faintly crooked as the old time glimmer weakly shined in his fading crimson eyes. "Not even... I... Dracula, nor High Lord of Hell, can fully ignore the will... of what humans call it.. God. I was made from such power, and I shall be taken by such power." Seras with small whimpers leaving her lips as she fought her sudden raging sadness, looked at him as she pressed her face into his moist warm palm. "But... why... why did you do that? We could have-"

"Seras. I had two choices to make. One, we win but I lose you, or Two... I sacrifice myself to rid this world of Maxwell, and..." his crookedness faded as that soft smile returned with his vamperic heart slowly melting away from the clutches of pure light that clung to his body. "... I know, you will be safe... unharmed and able to move on... Seras... Live long, my blood runs within you... And Seras... Thank you..." Blinking, Seras gave a small cry as she saw the white marble had crept all the way up to his shoulders, and unto his hand that still encased her face in a tender way as she meeting his eyes... his eyes. No longer red and filled with cruelty, a deep brown loving filled gaze met her own as all vamperic traits left and Alucard stood there, three fourths covered in stone, as a human who was deeply in love, and as a human that was not long for this world.

That smile of his grew sad and tender as his breath slowly slipped over Seras's pale soft face. "... thus.. I am always with you Seras... I am truly.. never gone... please, be safe, be happy... Seras..." looking from the creeping stone, Seras looked deep into his eyes as Alucard's smile grew, a shimmer of no regret was within his eyes as his smile exposed a mouth that lacked of fangs. "I love you, Seras. Oh god does it feel good, to feel the emotions I had long since lost... I love you, I love you!" laughing happily from practically yelling those words, Alucard's eyes danced upon her own as his smile was pure and wide. "Alucard..." Seras whispered as the marble crept onto his neck just below his ears, yet uncaring, he watched her still with that all so happy smile. "do not forget, souls do return to earth, reborn, but not truly forgetting those left behind. I will find you again... promise me Seras, live long, be happy, promise me."

Seras with a weak wiping of her tears onto her sleeve, smiled timidly to her love as the stone was slinking over his lips, yet the man's eyes continued to dance. "I... promise... don't... forget... me... please..." her weak voice whispered as his eyes began to fill with sadness.

"ALUCARD!!!"

Seras screamed as the memory faded back into the mist blue with glittering orbs of light. With the tears falling freely, the undead falling to her knees, buried face into her hands and sobbed loudly. She wanted to tear her heart out, it ached horribly. The pain, the loss...

"I promise..."

"be happy, be safe..."

"please don't forget me..."

"I will not... forget you... Seras."

Hearing his soft voice murmuring in her left ear, Seras weakly looked up and froze. There before her, with ivory hair, a body bare of any articles of clothing, stood Alucard with his eyes covered by long strands of his white hair. Her body locked in place, Seras could not move as the man she had loved for so long, slowly kneeled before her with his eyes still concealed. His lips turned into a small smile as the outline of his form flickered and kept shifting from solid to mist and back again.

"Seras..."

Finding motion in her right arm, Seras with a trembling motion, reached forth to the strands covering his left eye. The hair as it touched her fingers, sent a chill down her spine as it didn't feel like hair, but like air that was as cold as ice. Yet seeing her fingers did in fact make contact... pull to the side and any motion she was able to find, was locked up once more. A single brown eye stared at her with such a loving look, the happiness his exposed eye held, the joy, and... the sadness.

With a very slow yet fluid motion, Alucard moved right for Seras's face with his own. Eyes pulling shut on her face, Seras awaited and felt a faint cold brush of lips upon her own.

"The heart of Alucard is what you seek, take it and cherish it... for when he returns, the love will remain, but hidden away unless that of which is light is reclaimed."

Seras's eyes pulled open hard as she was laying on her back with Ryuichi and Arram staring down at her with worried emotions bleeding from their very forms. Drawing in ragged breaths and uncaring of their watching her, Seras brought a trembling hand to her lips fully uncaring of the crimson tears that still rested upon her pale face. She remembered that cold touch, the grazing of their lips... so close, he had been so close and yet... was still so far away.

Feeling a weight upon her upper chest by the neck, with a weak groan the woman sitting up saw upon a thick strap of a leather choker, there hanging over her clothed front was a ebony glass like object in the shape of a demonic heart no bigger then a silver dollar. Alucard's heart was finally hers.

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Me: Reviews! I need reviews, please! The next chapter shall be up in about a week if not sooner (that is if I can get at least five reviews in two days, and not from the same people) I am trying to see just how many people really do enjoy my story and hell, if you have any ideas as to what should happen, feel free, it will help the many fights with writers block that I tend to have, so again, reviews and until then, ciao for now!

- Hakuyaoshi